NYC mother killed in murder-suicide by daughter who was ‘fighting demons’

A Park Slope mother in New York City was killed by her daughter in a murder-suicide after those around the pair said that the daughter had been “fighting demons.”

The victim, 59-year-old Olga Bracero, a vegan chef, had reportedly reached out to a neighbor for help regarding her 23-year-old daughter, Kayla Wilson. Bracero believed her daughter was experiencing mental issues following drug use.

According to neighbor Deshawn Jackson, Bracero became increasingly concerned after Wilson returned from a trip to Jamaica, when “everything changed.”

“The mother told me that [Wilson] had smoked some bad marijuana and after that just wasn’t the same.“[Bracero] had called me and told me that ‘[Wilson is] fighting demons and they were telling her to do bad things, can you please come help me?’” Jackson said, according to the New York Post. 

Jackson explained that Wilson had schizophrenia and had previously been hospitalized. She would also say that the “voices in her head” were “telling her to do it.”

“We ended up putting her in the hospital to get help, she was on medication,’’ Jackson said. “She was there for two weeks.”

After Wilsmon was released, Bracero called Jackson again, saying her daughter was walking around the house with a knife.

Police responded to the family’s residence around 8 pm on Saturday following reports of an unresponsive female. Officers found both Bracero and Wilson suffering from multiple stab wounds. Both were pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators believe Wilson stabbed her mother and then used the same weapon to take her own life.

The murder-suicide is the second to occur in the same building in the last two years. In January of 2024, a cook named Jason Jackson fatally shot his partner, then shot himself. 

“This building has a curse on it,” another neighbor told the Post.